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Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:05:24 -0400Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:09:30 -0400Bauer: If Planned Parenthood Ally Martin Luther King Were Alive Today, He Would Be Fighting Planned Parenthoodhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bauer-if-planned-parenthood-ally-martin-luther-king-were-alive-today-he-would-be-fighting-pl
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<p>Gary Bauer <a href="http://www.cwfpac.com/eod/monday-august-26-2013">told</a> members of the Campaign for Working Families that if Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would be an anti-abortion activist fighting Planned Parenthood, which Bauer <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2011/11/cains-false-attack-on-planned-parenthood/">falsely</a> <a href="http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2011/apr/08/herman-cain/cain-claims-planned-parenthood-founded-planned-gen/">suggested</a> is attempting to commit <a href="http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/11/3/gpr110302.html">black</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/herman-cains-rewriting-of-birth-control-history/2011/10/31/gIQAr53uaM_blog.html?hpid=z2">genocide</a>:</p>
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Far from promoting Planned Parenthood's agenda, Reverend King would expose its racist roots and point out that it deliberately locates abortion facilities in inner city communities. He would weep at that fact, which has resulted in more than 20 million aborted black babies, a death toll the KKK could not reach in its most deranged dreams.</blockquote>
<p>Bauer might want to do his homework, as King actually <a href="http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/reverend-martin-luther-king-jr-4728.htm">received the Margaret Sanger Award</a> from Planned Parenthood and told executive committee member <a href="http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/theme/1430">Cass Canfield</a> that it &ldquo;will remain among my most cherished possessions&rdquo;:</p>
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Dear Mr. Canfield:<br />
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Words are inadequate for me to say how honored I was to be the recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award. This award will remain among my most cherished possessions. While I cannot claim to be worthy of such a signal honor, I can assure you that I accept it with deep humility and sincere gratitude. Such a wonderful expression of support is of inestimable value for the continuance of my humble efforts.<br />
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Again let me say how much I regret that at the last minute urgent developments in the civil rights movement made it impossible for me to be in Washington to personally receive the award. My wife brought glowing echoes of the wonderful reception and impressiveness of the total occasion.<br />
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I am happy to be the recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award and I can assure you that this distinct honor will cause me to work even harder for a reign of justice and a rule of love all over our nation.<br />
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Sincerely yours,<br />
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Martin Luther King Jr.</blockquote>
<p>Bauer may also want to read King&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/reverend-martin-luther-king-jr-4728.htm">essay</a> on the importance of family planning and groups like Planned Parenthood for the African American community:</p>
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There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger's early efforts. She, like we, saw the horrifying conditions of ghetto life. Like we, she knew that all of society is poisoned by cancerous slums. Like we, she was a direct actionist &mdash; a nonviolent resister. She was willing to accept scorn and abuse until the truth she saw was revealed to the millions. At the turn of the century she went into the slums and set up a birth control clinic, and for this deed she went to jail because she was violating an unjust law. Yet the years have justified her actions. She launched a movement which is obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane conditions. Margaret Sanger had to commit what was then called a crime in order to enrich humanity, and today we honor her courage and vision; for without them there would have been no beginning. Our sure beginning in the struggle for equality by nonviolent direct action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her. Negroes have no mere academic nor ordinary interest in family planning. They have a special and urgent concern.<br />
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Recently the subject of Negro family life has received extensive attention. Unfortunately, studies have overemphasized the problem of the Negro male ego and almost entirely ignored the most serious element &mdash; Negro migration. During the past half century Negroes have migrated on a massive scale, transplanting millions from rural communities to crammed urban ghettoes. In their migration, as with all migrants, they carried with them the folkways of the countryside into an inhospitable city slum. The size of family that may have been appropriate and tolerable on a manually cultivated farm was carried over to the jammed streets of the ghetto. In all respects Negroes were atomized, neglected and discriminated against. Yet, the worst omission was the absence of institutions to acclimate them to their new environment. Margaret Sanger, who offered an important institutional remedy, was unfortunately ignored by social and political leaders in this period. In consequence, Negro folkways in family size persisted. The problem was compounded when unrestrained exploitation and discrimination accented the bewilderment of the newcomer, and high rates of illegitimacy and fragile family relationships resulted.<br />
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For the Negro, therefore, intelligent guides of family planning are a profoundly important ingredient in his quest for security and a decent life. There are mountainous obstacles still separating Negroes from a normal existence. Yet one element in stabilizing his life would be an understanding of and easy access to the means to develop a family related in size to his community environment and to the income potential he can command.<br />
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This is not to suggest that the Negro will solve all his problems through Planned Parenthood. His problems are far more complex, encompassing economic security, education, freedom from discrimination, decent housing and access to culture. Yet if family planning is sensible it can facilitate or at least not be an obstacle to the solution of the many profound problems that plague him.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanC4Gary Bauerplanned parenthoodCampaign for Working Families Fighting the Right44105Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:05:24 -0400planned parenthoodTroy Newman Threatens Civil Disobedience To Counter Obama's 'Totalitarian State'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/troy-newman-threatens-civil-disobedience-counter-obamas-totalitarian-state
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<p>Troy Newman of Operation Rescue is obviously not a fan of the <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/317249-obamacare-navigators-include-planned-parenthood-affiliates">decision</a> to name Planned Parenthood affiliates in Iowa, Montana and New Hampshire as &ldquo;navigators&rdquo; that will aid people purchasing health insurance plans through new exchanges. In a LifeSiteNews story which <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/planned-parenthood-navigators-will-have-access-to-americans-personal-medica">suggested</a> &ldquo;Planned Parenthood employees could abuse&rdquo; tax information in order &ldquo;to harass their ideological enemies,&rdquo; Newman floated &ldquo;civil disobedience&rdquo; as possibly &ldquo;the only solution for an increasingly totalitarian state.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The anti-choice outlet also quoted Rep. Diane Black (R-TN), who said that the navigators grant would help Planned Parenthood &ldquo;continue its misuse of taxpayer dollars to [supplement] their big abortion business&rdquo; and repeated the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/06/04/nom-baselessly-accuses-obama-administration-of/194325">false claim</a> that the IRS deliberately leaked the National Organization for Marriage&rsquo;s tax information.</p>
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Planned Parenthood employees will soon have access to a vast federal database of sensitive information, including the Social Security number, tax form, bank account, and medical records of every single American citizen as the president seeks their help in implementing ObamaCare.<br />
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Consumers purchasing health insurance through health care exchanges will speak to &ldquo;navigators,&rdquo; whose job is to help them find the best coverage and determine if they are eligible for a federal subsidy.<br />
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Others are concerned Planned Parenthood employees could abuse their access to sensitive information to harass their ideological enemies. The National Organization for Marriage saw its tax forms leaked to a gay rights organization and later printed on The Huffington Post by a full-fledged IRS employee.<br />
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&ldquo;We may have come to the point where civil disobedience might be the only solution for an increasingly totalitarian state,&rdquo; Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, told LifeSiteNews.com. &ldquo;I'm resolved to not comply with the invasion of privacy and taxation without representation.&rdquo;<br />
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&ldquo;The navigator grants would further enable Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in America, to continue its misuse of taxpayer dollars to [supplement] their big abortion business,&rdquo; Congresswoman Diane Black, R-TN, said.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanC4Diane BlackLife Site NewsOperation Rescueplanned parenthoodTroy Newman Fighting the Right44045Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:45:18 -0400planned parenthoodRep. Blackburn Falsely Claims Majority Supports Defunding Planned Parenthoodhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rep-blackburn-falsely-claims-majority-supports-defunding-planned-parenthood
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<p>Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is encouraging her colleagues in the House GOP to once again attempt to defund Planned Parenthood, even though in the last election <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/11/12/1175741/viewpoint-the-emerging-pro-choice-majority/">59%</a> of voters said they were pro-choice and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/dems-hit-romney-on-planned-parenthood-funding/">53%</a> opposed efforts to defund the women&rsquo;s health organization. But not according to Blackburn, who told Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council yesterday that &ldquo;the majority of the American people,&rdquo; and &ldquo;the majority of American women,&rdquo; oppose abortion rights and Planned Parenthood funding.</p>
<p>Blackburn claimed that Planned Parenthood &ldquo;outsources&rdquo; cancer screenings and birth control services and uses federal money &ldquo;to subsidize the abortion services,&rdquo; while Perkins worried that the government was creating a &ldquo;feeder system for the abortion business&rdquo; by naming it as a &ldquo;resource&rdquo; for women.</p>
<p>Contrary to heir assertions, the government is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/what-planned-parenthood-actually-does/2011/04/06/AFhBPa2C_blog.html">banned</a> from funding abortion services (which represent just <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/apr/08/jon-kyl/jon-kyl-says-abortion-services-are-well-over-90-pe/">3%</a> of Planned Parenthood services) and the dollars are <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-planned-parenthood/2011/04/14/AFogj1iD_story.html">not fungible</a>.</p>
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<strong>Perkins</strong>: What they do by giving them this federal money is they set them up as a source, a resource, and it becomes a feeder system for the abortion business that that they have.<br />
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<strong>Blackburn</strong>: Well of course, because as you say money is fungible. The money that is coming in the door that they are saying is there for birth control and cancer screenings and pregnancy planning, all of which they are outsourcing, they still have those dollars. Then they have other dollars that are coming in through abortion or either they are using this money to subsidize the abortion services that they are providing through the mechanism of the fact that those dollars are fungible. You do not have an abortion business and another services business; it is all under one umbrella. People don&rsquo;t like this, whether they are pro-choice or pro-life, they do not like the fact that you are having taxpayer dollars go for abortion services. The majority of the American people are pro-life, the majority of American women are pro-life and because of that we need to make certain that Planned Parenthood does not get this money and that they are not able to use it to support or stand up or expand their abortion services.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanC4Marsha Blackburnplanned parenthoodTony Perkins Fighting the Right43325Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:30:39 -0400planned parenthoodHutcherson: Satan Behind Obama's Planned Parenthood Speech and Jason Collins Coming Outhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hutcherson-satan-behind-obamas-planned-parenthood-speech-and-jason-collins-coming-out
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<p>Writing for the <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/our-president-blesses-sin-god-help-us-95131/"><em>Christian Post</em></a> today, Washington state pastor and anti-gay activist Ken Hutcherson said it was no coincidence that Jason Collins came out just days following President Obama&rsquo;s speech to Planned Parenthood, contending that both incidents were satanically inspired as they will further &ldquo;evil&rdquo; and &ldquo;both go directly against God's Holy Word.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;The enemy has impeccable timing,&rdquo; Hutcherson writes, claiming that Satan is using President Obama&rsquo;s pro-choice policies and the &ldquo;gay agenda&rdquo; to persecute Christians.</p>
<p>According to Hutcherson, Obama&rsquo;s speech was no different than an endorsement of Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot, while &ldquo;Collins is being used as a pawn, in the most dangerous game of Russian roulette for his soul.&rdquo;</p>
<p>God&rsquo;s moral line &ldquo;has been crossed, and once again Obama has done nothing,&rdquo; Hutcherson maintains. &ldquo;Planned Parenthood and their poster child, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, long ago crossed the line, exactly like those going public with their sexual preference.&rdquo;</p>
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Last Friday, April 26th, President Obama became the first sitting president to speak at the National Planned Parenthood Conference. Not only did he speak at this event, but he invoked God's blessing upon them! No president in our history has had the arrogance to openly endorse the slaughter of our unborn, and atrocities against women. Would the American people have ever endorsed the likes of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Emperor Hirohito, or other mass-murderers as this President has done? And let me mention another genocidal maniac: Dr. Kermit Gosnell of Philadelphia, who 'surprisingly' was not mentioned by the President during his speech, despite working under the policy of Planned Parenthood.<br />
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In other news, do any of you believe there is a connection between the Boston Celtic NBA basketball player, Jason Collins, announcing he is gay only 72 hours after President Obama's speech to Planned Parenthood? The answer is a resounding YES! More proof that Christian views are very much under attack! The enemy has impeccable timing.<br />
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Collins is being used as a pawn, in the most dangerous game of Russian roulette for his soul. Have you ever noticed that those who support the gay agenda don't like Christians in sports, entertainment, or media? They really don't like us anywhere at all. Let's take Tim Tebow as a classic example. Tebow was asked to keep his beliefs quietly to himself, while Collins is celebrated for the 'heroism' displayed for exposing his off-court activities.<br />
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Professional sports teams are now in very serious jeopardy, due in part to the abuse of the word "tolerance". But really, who is intolerant now? Players may not agree or like having a gay teammate, but they will be so intimidated that they may not say anything. If they do say something based on their moral or biblical beliefs, THEY will be the ones disciplined or kicked off the team. Ask Chris Broussard of ESPN. He simply stated homosexuality (along with other acts) is a sin; the way he was attacked, you would have thought he was the spawn of Satan himself.<br />
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I can't imagine that Collins, standing in the shower after a game, and knowing the vast majority of his teammates are not gay, will go over very well. How about the players standing in the shower with him, knowing that one of their teammates likes other men? Just saying&hellip;<br />
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This will have the most negative impact on not only the individual teams, but also on the individuals themselves.<br />
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The connection between these two stories should be very obvious: they both go directly against God's Holy Word. After all, God hates hands that shed innocent blood (Prov.617) and is sickened by sodomy (Rom.1:24-27). Unfortunately, our President has chosen to commend rather than condemn these things. These two situations are critically dangerous to our society. Why is the United States of America, and many within the church today, putting God to the test? This is far worse than playing with fire. Last year, President Obama announced that he was drawing a 'red line' in the sand against Syria in regards to them using chemical weapons against the Syrian people. That line has been crossed, and once again Obama has done nothing. Planned Parenthood and their poster child, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, long ago crossed the line, exactly like those going public with their sexual preference.<br />
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So, like our administration, are we going to sit idle and do nothing?<br />
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Would any previous President of the United States have toasted Adolf Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, or King Herod?, or the organization Of course not. Then why do we tolerate it when the media intentionally overlooks the work of Kermit Gosnell? God is watching us my friends. We need to unite now! It's time for us to draw our own line in the sand, sending a clear message to all who would listen. That message is, we are not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, and this is our country. We won't let it be destroyed by a handful of anti-Christian people. So, if you're weary of a government that funds infanticide, that champions sodomy, that calls good "evil" and evil "good", then let's work together to change things around here. Let's do something together that we can't do separately. Let's see how God wants to use us to change our country as we lock arms together. If you want to be part of this movement, join the Black Robe Brigade here. Let's move, Black Robe Brigade, and watch God do awesome things.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanAnti-GayC4Ken Hutcherson planned parenthoodFighting the Right42931Thu, 02 May 2013 13:35:17 -0400planned parenthoodMurray: Obama a 'Modern-Day Manasseh' Who 'Seems To Love the Death of Others'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/murray-obama-modern-day-manasseh-who-seems-love-death-others
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<p>Furious over President Obama&rsquo;s speech to Planned Parenthood, William Murray took to <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/obama-king-manasseh-in-our-midst/"><em>WorldNetDaily</em></a> today to compare Obama to <a href="http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=234419033">the idolatrous and evil king Manasseh</a> for having &ldquo;crossed God&rsquo;s red line by petitioning Him to bless abortionists.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;No president has stood for death and the destruction of the true church of Christ as has Barack Obama,&rdquo; Murray writes. He goes on to imply that Obama is a Muslim, arguing that only in Islam do people ask God &ldquo;to assist in murder.&rdquo;</p>
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No president has stood for death and the destruction of the true church of Christ as has Barack Obama. He is a modern-day Manasseh. Barack Obama has supported the takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood of several nations, and the result has been the brutal treatment and murder of Christians. In Syria his administration has supported Islamist fighters who have bombed schools and slaughtered women and children. It is no surprise then that he would take to the stage and ask God to bless abortionists who kill the most helpless and innocent among us &ndash; as he did at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser last week.<br />
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President Barack Hussein Obama seems to love the death of others, and he seems to believe that God should bless those who murder the innocent. Not since Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, has a national leader asked for blessings through the sacrifice of babies. Manasseh sacrificed his own son to the Canaanite god Moloch, who was worshiped with the burning of children. Barack Obama has crossed God&rsquo;s red line by petitioning Him to bless abortionists. Barack Obama now rivals Manasseh.<br />
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The focus of the Religious Freedom Coalition, of which I am chairman, is the persecuted church. A national leader asking God to bless abortionists is more than an attack on the church; it is an attack on God Himself. In his closing remarks at the Planned Parenthood convention, Barack Hussein Obama petitioned God to bless baby killers.<br />
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There is only one modern religion in which God is openly petitioned to assist in murder, and that can be heard in the cry of &ldquo;Allahu Akbar&rdquo; by Muslims as they slaughter Christians in Nigerian villages or set off bombs at the Boston Marathon. Perhaps if Obama had paid more attention at church as an adult, and less attention at mosque as a child, he would not ask God to bless those who kill the innocent.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanC4Government is Not God planned parenthoodReligious Freedom CoalitionWilliam Murray WorldNetDaily Fighting the Right42908Wed, 01 May 2013 10:50:37 -0400planned parenthoodRobertson: Planned Parenthood Inspired Adolf Hitler, Behind 'Genocide' of Black Communityhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-planned-parenthood-inspired-adolf-hitler-behind-genocide-black-community
<p>Today on the <em>700 Club</em>, Pat Robertson said that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger">Margaret Sanger</a> &ldquo;was the one who set the stage for Adolf Hitler, she didn&rsquo;t copy him, he copied her.&rdquo; After running a story about how President Obama <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/04/24/obama-planned-parenthood-speech-texas-visit/2110013/">postponed</a> his speech at&nbsp;Planned Parenthood in order to attend a memorial service in Texas for victims of the fertilizer plant explosion, Roberston said that the group founded by Sanger is &ldquo;evil&rdquo; and targets black people.</p>
<p>&ldquo;What they said was, they said &lsquo;what we&rsquo;ve got to do in order to get the black people in America to have abortions, we have to have some noted black leader who will come out for Planned Parenthood and we&rsquo;ll give him the Margaret Sanger award and therefore he will be our poster boy showing the black people they should have abortions,&rdquo; Robertson maintained, &ldquo;it was strictly genocide.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>While Sanger was tied to the eugenics movement, the claim that she intended to exterminate black people and use black leaders to hide such a plan is based on a quote taken badly out of context.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2011/apr/08/herman-cain/cain-claims-planned-parenthood-founded-planned-gen/">PolitiFact</a> reports, the eugenics movement was widely popular at the time of Sanger&rsquo;s work, but there is &ldquo;no evidence that Sanger advocated - privately or publicly - for anything even resembling the &lsquo;genocide&rsquo; of blacks, or that she thought blacks are genetically inferior&rdquo;:</p>
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"I have never run into any serious academic reference of Sanger or others wanting to &lsquo;kill black babies,&rsquo;" Indiana University professor Ruth Engs, a eugenics movement expert, told PolitiFact Georgia in an e-mail.</blockquote>
<p>The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/herman-cains-rewriting-of-birth-control-history/2011/10/31/gIQAr53uaM_blog.html?hpid=z2"><em>Washington Post</em></a> also &ldquo;found nothing to confirm these allegations&rdquo; that Sanger targeted the black community for genocide and noted that even Martin Luther King, Jr. had praised her work.</p>
<p>The Annenberg Public Policy Center&rsquo;s FactCheck.org <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2011/11/cains-false-attack-on-planned-parenthood/">debunked</a> the claim when Herman Cain made the same argument as Robertson:</p>
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Cain isn&rsquo;t the first to believe that birth control advocate Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) wanted to stop the birth of black babies. Just do an Internet search and see what happens. Sanger made more than her share of controversial comments. But the quote many point to as evidence that Sanger favored something akin to &ldquo;genocide&rdquo; of African Americans has been turned on its head.<br />
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Sanger, who was arrested several times in her efforts to bring birth control to women in the United States, set up her first clinic in Brooklyn in 1916. In the late 1930s, she sought to bring clinics to black women in the South, in an effort that was called the &ldquo;Negro Project.&rdquo; Sanger wrote in 1939 letters to colleague Clarence James Gamble that she believed the project needed a black physician and black minister to gain the trust of the community:<br />
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<em><strong>Sanger, 1939:</strong> The minister&rsquo;s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.</em><br />
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Sanger says that a minister could debunk the notion, if it arose, that the clinics aimed to &ldquo;exterminate the Negro population.&rdquo; She didn&rsquo;t say that she wanted to &ldquo;exterminate&rdquo; the black population. The Margaret Sanger Papers Project at New York University says that this quote has &ldquo;gone viral on the Internet,&rdquo; normally out of context, and it &ldquo;doesn&rsquo;t reflect the fact that Sanger recognized elements within the black community might mistakenly associate the Negro Project with racist sterilization campaigns in the Jim Crow south, unless clergy and other community leaders spread the word that the Project had a humanitarian aim.&rdquo;<br />
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It goes on to characterize beliefs such as Cain&rsquo;s as &ldquo;extremist.&rdquo; The project says: &ldquo;No serious scholar and none of the dozens of black leaders who supported Sanger&rsquo;s work have ever suggested that she tried to reduce the black population or set up black abortion mills, the implication in much of the extremist anti-choice material.&rdquo;</blockquote>
Brian Tashman700 ClubAnti-AbortionC4Pat Robertson planned parenthoodReproductive HealthChristian Broadcasting NetworkFighting the Right42855Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:30:23 -0400planned parenthoodWisconsin Lawmaker Suggests Planned Parenthood Is Targeting Asian Americans for Abortionhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wisconsin-lawmaker-suggests-planned-parenthood-targeting-asian-americans-abortion
<p>In an interview yesterday, Wisconsin Republican state senator Glenn Grothman suggested that Planned Parenthood is promoting sex-selective abortions to Asian Americans. While speaking to Jim Schneider of Voice of Christian Youth America, Grothman called Planned Parenthood &ldquo;the most racist organization&rdquo; in the country and speculated that Planned Parenthood is &ldquo;aggressively promoting this stuff [sex-selective abortion] among people with an Asian background.&rdquo;</p>
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<strong>Grothman</strong>: Given the racist background of Planned Parenthood and not liking people who are not white, I wonder if one of the reasons why Planned Parenthood likes to do these sex-selective abortions is disproportionately they are done on people of an Asian background. Let&rsquo;s face it; we all know Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s background, very racist, probably the most racist organization&mdash;<br />
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<strong>Schneider</strong>: They specialize in putting their centers in minority neighborhoods.<br />
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<strong>Grothman</strong>: We know the historic comments of Margaret Sanger. It&rsquo;s something that concerns me a little because I wonder given their racism the degree to which Planned Parenthood is aggressively promoting this stuff among people with an Asian background and I sure hope the state legislature takes a role and puts an end to it, at least in the state of Wisconsin.</blockquote>
<p>Grothman has previously claimed that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wisconsin-senator-who-introduced-anti-single-parent-bill-says-women-trained-lie-about-planne">single moms deliberately lie about their pregnancies</a> and <a href="http://clydewinter.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/100/">voted against a bill</a> providing survivors of sexual assault emergency contraception. Planned Parenthood has already <a href="http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/planned-parenthood-statement-hoax-campaign-39383.htm">condemned</a> sex-selective abortions but many anti-choice activists have argued, <a href="http://jezebel.com/5913918/can-anti+choice-rascals-prove-planned-parenthood-endorses-sex+selective-abortion">without much evidence</a>, that such abortions are a &ldquo;growing problem&rdquo; in the U.S.</p>
Brian TashmanAnti-Abortionglenn grothmanplanned parenthoodVoice of Christian Youth America (VCY America) C3Fighting the Right42033Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:15:59 -0400planned parenthoodFischer: Abortion Rights Will Lead to Terrorist Attackshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-abortion-rights-will-lead-terrorist-attacks
<p>Yesterday on <em>Focal Point</em>, American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer marked the anniversary of <em>Roe v. Wade</em> by predicting that America &ldquo;will have to pay&rdquo; for legal abortion: &ldquo;It could be through civil war, it could be through anarchy, it could be through Muslim fundamentalists and terrorists attacks on the United States, but one way or another we cannot escape God&rsquo;s justice.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He went on to argue that Planned Parenthood clinics are no different from Nazi death camps. &ldquo;You see a Planned Parenthood clinic, just think Birkenau, just think Auschwitz, just think Bergen-Belsen,&rdquo; Fischer said, &ldquo;because that&rsquo;s what you are looking at, you are looking at an equivalent of a Nazi gas chamber.&rdquo;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqmEc44ZHeg&feature=youtu.be">Watch:</a></p>
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<p>Later, he repeated the<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-recycles-debunked-planned-parenthood-smear"> false charge </a>that Planned Parenthood promotes domestic abuse to its members.</p>
<p align="center"><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="undefined" flashvars="file=/sites/default/files/mp3/Fischer-PP-Abuse.mp3" height="20" src="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/mp3/player.swf" width="400"></embed></p>
<p>Just like <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-recycles-debunked-planned-parenthood-smear">other</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/more-conservative-groups-repeat-blatantly-false-planned-parenthood-attack">conservative</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/smearing-planned-parenthood-reaches-new-low">leaders</a>, Fischer never found time to watch the video he is so angry about. If he did he would learn that it&rsquo;s a British anti-violence video that uses an intentionally misleading title to deliver the real message: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t cover it up.&rdquo;</p>
<p align="center"><img alt="" src="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/PPFBRefuge_1.jpg" /></p>
Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association Anti-AbortionBryan FischerC4planned parenthoodFighting the Right42026Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:00:37 -0400planned parenthoodTroy Newman Compares Planned Parenthood Fight to World War II, Underground Railroadhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/troy-newman-compares-planned-parenthood-fight-world-war-ii-underground-railroad
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<p>Operation Rescue head Troy Newman appeared on <a href="http://janetmefferdpremium.com/2013/01/22/janet-mefferd-radio-show-20130122-hr-2/"><em>The Janet Mefferd Show</em></a> yesterday to discuss the anniversary of<em> Roe v. Wade </em>and new tactics to recriminalize abortion and fight Planned Parenthood, making sure not to mention the <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2013/0122/Roe-v.-Wade-at-40-a-new-surge-in-support-for-abortion-rights">growing support for <em>Roe</em></a>. Newman said that Operation Rescue and other anti-choice groups must act like the allied bombers who destroyed Nazi arms factories during World War II.</p>
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<strong>Newman</strong>: I&rsquo;ll give you a little analogy; in 1943 the allied forces sent 1,500 bombers into Germany to destroy the ball-bearing factories and the aviation factories because they knew without ball-bearings they couldn&rsquo;t produce armaments and methods to destroy the allied forces. So I want to diminish the enemy&rsquo;s ability to make war on children and I&rsquo;ve got several plans we&rsquo;ll be talking about but that that&rsquo;s the idea. They are going to be well-funded, they are going to be governed by the most radical pro-abortion president ever and the Supreme Court but we&rsquo;re going to be going after their ability to make war on children.</blockquote>
<p>He also compared the Operation Rescue demonstrations, which have been <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2005/03/21/who-is-randall-terry/132921">linked to violence</a>, to abolitionists working in the Underground Railroad and called on activists to channel Gideon, whose 300-man army destroyed the Midianites in the Book of Judges. &ldquo;I think I told you on a previous radio show, I got tired of going to jail,&rdquo; Newmain said, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s the abortionists that need to go to jail.&rdquo;</p>
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<strong>Newman</strong>: We peacefully came and laid down our lives and they asked us to leave, &lsquo;Get out that door, go away, get off this property,&rsquo; we&rsquo;d say, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m sorry I cannot in good conscience get up because if I do the abortionist will come in and he will kill children. So they beat us up and they threw us in jail and they sued us into oblivion and then they passed a federal law to make it a federal crime, a lot like the Fugitive Slave Act. If you were running the Underground Railroad you could face federal time for harboring slaves.<br />
<br />
<strong>Mefferd</strong>: And the RICO lawsuit, the racketeering, it was supposed to be a law used to go after the mob and they started using it against pro-lifers. How much did the lawsuit filing by NARAL and NOW and all these groups, how much damage did that do to Operation Rescue and other big pro-life organizations in terms of the strategies you employed?<br />
<br />
<strong>Newman</strong>: For us rescue was going away anyway because of the massive amounts of jail time. I think I told you on a previous radio show, I got tired of going to jail; it&rsquo;s the abortionists that need to go to jail. So we were changing our tactics anyway. I think what it did to the rest of the pro-life movement is it made them more fearful of the government and what they could possibly do to them then what happened in actuality. At the end of the day, I&rsquo;m still standing, I&rsquo;m still rescuing, I&rsquo;m still more resolved to end this child-killing than I was back then so they just made me a better pro-lifer.<br />
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<strong>Mefferd</strong>: That&rsquo;s great. We need about 100 million of you, Troy.<br />
<br />
<strong>Newman</strong>: I&rsquo;d settle for about&mdash;Gideon, 300 courageous men in America that will stand up against Planned Parenthood and we will win the day.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanAnti-AbortionJanet MefferdOperation Rescueplanned parenthoodTroy Newman C3Fighting the Right42015Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:35:52 -0400planned parenthoodPerkins Recycles Debunked Planned Parenthood Smearhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-recycles-debunked-planned-parenthood-smear
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<p>Sometimes you really have to wonder whether anyone on the Religious Right has ever used YouTube before. Last month, conservative news outlets including Fox News and groups like Concerned Women for America <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/more-conservative-groups-repeat-blatantly-false-planned-parenthood-attack">jumped on</a> a <em>LifeNews</em> post which alleged that Planned Parenthood was <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/smearing-planned-parenthood-reaches-new-low">promoting ways to cover-up domestic abuse</a>. They were upset that back in August, a Planned Parenthood-affiliated Facebook page posted a video by a British anti-domestic violence group entitled &ldquo;How to look your best the morning after&rdquo;:</p>
<p align="center"><img alt="" src="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/PPFBRefuge_0.jpg" /></p>
<p>Even the author of the original<em> LifeNews </em>article <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/more-conservative-groups-repeat-blatantly-false-planned-parenthood-attack">admits</a> that the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-XHPHRlWZk">video</a>, made by the organization Refuge, is a shrewd message against domestic abuse, as towards the end the woman is confronted by her abuser returning home and ends with:</p>
<blockquote>
65% of women who suffer domestic violence keep it hidden.<br />
Don't cover it up.<br />
Share this and help someone speak out.</blockquote>
<p>Using the video to attack Planned Parenthood was a bridge too far for one anti-choice blogger, who <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/blog/no-planned-parenthood-does-not-show-women-how-to-cover-up-domestic-abuse.-b">wrote</a> that &ldquo;the video is actually a clever, if chilling, parody opposed to covering up domestic abuse.&rdquo;</p>
<p>But right-wing activists intentionally and flagrantly misrepresented the video, claiming that it was actually a pro-abuse video, while others like Concerned Women for America <a href="http://www.cwalac.org/cwblog/?p=888">insisted</a> that Planned Parenthood came up with the video&rsquo;s title, &ldquo;How to look your best the morning after.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Of course, anyone who has used YouTube before knows that the account which uploaded video, not a Facebook page which simply shares it, creates the video title.</p>
<p>That brings us to today&rsquo;s radio alert from Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, who unbelievably and almost comically claimed that Planned Parenthood promoted domestic abuse and gave the video its title.</p>
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<strong>Perkins</strong>: Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s reputation isn&rsquo;t the only thing taking a beating, so are its teenage followers. Hello, I&rsquo;m Tony Perkins with the Family Research Council in Washington. The abortion industry can cover anything up and their latest video proves it. In the footage, Planned Parenthood coaches girls on looking good after they&rsquo;ve been physically abused. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had a bit of a rough time,&rdquo; says a girl with bruises, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;m going to be doing a talk today on how to cover-up.&rdquo; She shows teenagers how to use makeup to hide the assault. &ldquo;If you&rsquo;ve got some bruising,&rdquo; she says with a choking motion, &ldquo;you can always pull your hair down to the side or use a scarf.&rdquo; The tape is from the UK but Planned Parenthood calls it, &ldquo;How to look your best the morning after.&rdquo; And this is the kind of education taxpayers are spending millions on? When Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s not promoting violence against babies, they&rsquo;re condoning it among teenagers. So if anything should be sporting cuts, it&rsquo;s Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s budget.</blockquote>
<p>Seeing that the FRC also opposes the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, we are not at all surprised that it is now grossly misrepresenting an anti-violence video to call for Congress to defund Planned Parenthood.</p>
Brian Tashmanplanned parenthoodReproductive HealthTony Perkins C3Family Research CouncilFighting the Right41901Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:10:30 -0400planned parenthoodHandel: Planned Parenthood 'Literally Co-Opted the Color Pink' from Komenhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/handel-planned-parenthood-literally-co-opted-color-pink-komen
<p>Former Susan G. Komen executive Karen Handel, the Georgia Republican politician who has been largely credited with the cancer charity&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-b-keegan/angry-at-komen-you-should_b_1252833.html">disastrous decision</a> last year to withdraw its grants to Planned Parenthood, <a href="http://www.frc.org/eventregistration/the-planned-parenthood-shakedown-of-komen-for-the-cure-former-komen-exec-karen-handel-on-the-truth-behind-the-headlines">spoke yesterday</a> to the Family Research Council. Promoting her book about the episode, &ldquo;Planned Bullyhood,&rdquo; Handel accused Planned Parenthood of launching an &ldquo;unprecedented, premeditated, Mafia-style assault&rdquo; on Komen. Further, she alleges that Planned Parenthood &ldquo;literally co-opted the color pink&rdquo; from Komen in a sinister &ldquo;bait and switch.&rdquo;</p>
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Miranda BlueC4Karen Handelplanned parenthoodReproductive RightsSusan G. Komen for the Curewar on womenFighting the Right41765Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:59:11 -0400planned parenthoodMore Conservative Groups Repeat Blatantly False Planned Parenthood Attackhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/more-conservative-groups-repeat-blatantly-false-planned-parenthood-attack
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<p>As Kyle <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/smearing-planned-parenthood-reaches-new-low">reported</a> yesterday, right-wing activists are jumping on what they claim is definitive proof that Planned Parenthood is teaching young women to conceal bruises that result from domestic violence.</p>
<p>Of course the charge is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/smearing-planned-parenthood-reaches-new-low">completely bogus</a>. Planned Parenthood <a href="http://www.facebook.com/PlannedParenthoodInfoforTeens/posts/483186831699521">posted</a> a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-XHPHRlWZk">video</a> entitled &ldquo;How to look your best the morning after&rdquo; on one of its Facebook pages. The video, and title, were created by the British domestic abuse prevention group &ldquo;Refuge&rdquo; to draw attention to the issue and tell views to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-XHPHRlWZk"><em>not</em> &ldquo;cover it up.&rdquo;</a></p>
<p>However, an anti-choice website <em>LifeNews</em> <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/06/planned-parenthood-shows-teens-how-to-hide-a-beating-with-makeup/">reported</a> it as if Planned Parenthood came up with the video&rsquo;s title and is using it to assist women in covering up abuse. But conservatives who either never bothered to watch the video or know that the charge is ludicrous but don&rsquo;t care ran with the story.</p>
<p>Fox Nation <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/planned-parenthood/2012/12/06/planned-parenthood-shows-teens-how-hide-beating-makeup">posted</a> the <em>LifeNews</em> story verbatim and Concerned Women for America president Penny Nance even released a <a href="http://www.cwfa.org/content.asp?id=21769">statement</a> demanding Congress defund the women&rsquo;s health organization over the matter:</p>
<blockquote>
Why are we giving $1 million dollars per day to an organization that thinks a practical way to end domestic violence is to coach victims on makeup tips to hide their abuse? Once again Planned Parenthood gets it so wrong. Between coaching pimps on how to obtain free abortions for sex trafficking victims, to support for sex selection abortions, to targeting minority babies, this organization is a toxic waste of taxpayer funds and is damaging to American culture. They deceitfully wrap their radical ideology in terms like 'women's health,' but all they really care about is perpetuating their insidious goals of coarsening our culture and undermining American families.<br />
<br />
Since Planned Parenthood seems to be in cahoots with pimps and traffickers (see Live Action's expose), this makes perfect sense. After all, they want those pimps happy and able to keep making money so they can pay for 'their girls' to have abortions. Some johns won't pay for a prostitute with bruises, so learning how to cover them up means they can go back out on the street sooner. Planned Parenthood may be a non-profit, but they sure know how to make money. Congress needs to defund this parasite immediately.</blockquote>
<p>Along with Nance&rsquo;s shamelessly dishonest statement, CWA blogger Christian Shelby <a href="http://www.cwalac.org/cwblog/?p=888">claimed</a> that while the video is actually meant to fight abuse Planned Parenthood &ldquo;has turned it on its head, posting the video with the simple headline: &lsquo;How to look your best the morning after.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
<p>Actually the British organization gave the video that title, but right-wing groups like CWA have no use for basic facts when trying to smear Planned Parenthood.</p>
<blockquote>
Enter Planned Parenthood, who recently posted a video on their Facebook page that instructs teenage girls on how to hide the evidence of abuse with makeup. After all, why report the scumbag? You deserved it, didn&rsquo;t you? It&rsquo;s not your boyfriend&rsquo;s fault that he&rsquo;s a pathetic excuse for a man who can only win an argument with his fists. This isn&rsquo;t a problem for police. No. This is a job for Covergirl.<br />
<br />
Actually, the video is from a legitimate organization in the U.K. that&rsquo;s fighting domestic violence. But Planned Parenthood &mdash; ever the friend of pimps, statutory rapists, and sex traffickers &mdash; has turned it on its head, posting the video with the simple headline: &ldquo;How to look your best the morning after.&rdquo;</blockquote>
<p>At least one anti-choice blogger, Ben Johnson, apparently decided that watching the video and reading the headline might be important before writing about it and <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/blog/no-planned-parenthood-does-not-show-women-how-to-cover-up-domestic-abuse.-b">concluded</a>&nbsp;that the video is clearly &ldquo;opposed to covering up domestic abuse.&rdquo;</p>
<p>But is it any wonder that the same activists who either never found the time to watch or are misrepresenting the anti-violence PSA in question are the very same ones who praised Live Action&rsquo;s deceptively edited videos that targeted Planned Parenthood?</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Family Research Council president Tony Perkins has <a href="https://twitter.com/tperkins/status/277121616020905984">also</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/tperkins/status/277122875360698368">joined</a> the smear campaign:</p>
<p align="center"><img alt="" src="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/PerkinsPPSmear.jpg" /></p>
<p><strong>UPDATE II</strong>: <em>LifeNews</em> has updated their <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/06/planned-parenthood-shows-teens-how-to-hide-a-beating-with-makeup/ ">article</a> to claim that &ldquo;Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s presentation of the video is problematic, not the video itself,&rdquo; arguing that it is&nbsp;&ldquo;problematic&rdquo; because Refuge&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-XHPHRlWZk">titled</a>&nbsp;the video, &ldquo;How To Look Your Best The Morning After.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Maybe <em>LifeNews,</em>&nbsp;Concerned Women for America and Tony Perkins&nbsp;should take their grudge up with Refuge, as Planned Parenthood does not have control over the names of other organization&rsquo;s videos.</p>
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Brian TashmanC4Penny Nanceplanned parenthoodConcerned Women for AmericaFighting the Right41701Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:15:36 -0400planned parenthoodThe Smearing of Planned Parenthood Reaches a New Lowhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/smearing-planned-parenthood-reaches-new-low
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<p>Earlier today, Erick Erickson of Red State retweeted a <a href="https://twitter.com/KristinaRibali/status/276732403974819841">tweet</a> from&nbsp;Kristina Ribali, the Director of New Media at FreedomWorks, linking to a "disgusting" LifeNews.com <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/06/planned-parenthood-shows-teens-how-to-hide-a-beating-with-makeup/">article</a> accusing Planned Parenthood of promoting a video that shows young women "how to cover up those nasty cuts and bruises that result from a beating."</p>
<p>The video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-XHPHRlWZk">in question</a> does, in fact, appear to be a demonstration from an obviously abused young woman attempting to conceal the bruises and lacerations on her face with make-up until she hears a noise off-screen and quickly turns off the camera ... at which point a message appears&nbsp;that reads:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>65% of women who suffer domestic violence keep it hidden.</p>
<p>Don't cover it up.</p>
<p>Share this and help someone speak out.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>A URL for the <a href="http://refuge.org.uk/lauren/">London-based domestic abuse helpline</a> that produced the ad is then provided. &nbsp;Obviously, the entire purpose of the ad is to juxtapose the scene presented against the real message of speaking out against domestic violence, and LifeNews even eventually admits this, yet still presents the video as if Planned Parenthood is <em>encouraging</em> young women to conceal abuse:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>But the way Planned Parenthood headlines it&mdash;with &ldquo;How to look your best the morning after,&rdquo; teens are mislead by Planned Parenthood into the cover up mentality. On the anti-domestic violence site, the video is introduced with the headline: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t cover it up.&rdquo; That headline makes a world of difference to young teens who run across the video.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Presumably, the reason Planned Parenthood headlined the video "How To Look Your Best The Morning After" is because the video is titled "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-XHPHRlWZk">How To Look Your Best The Morning After</a>." &nbsp;The title is intentionally misleading in order to drive home to real message.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And, of course, LifeNews was not alone as the <a href="http://twitchy.com/2012/12/06/monsters-planned-parenthood-tells-teens-look-your-best-after-being-beaten-with-these-make-up-tips/">geniuses over at Twitchy</a> are likewise outraged about the video because they are apparently equally clueless:&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The video, which is from a legitimate organization fighting against domestic violence, does end with &ldquo;don&rsquo;t cover it up.&rdquo;</p>
<p>But the way Planned Parenthood framed it, the message is just the opposite: &ldquo;You probably had it coming, girls. May as well try to doll yourselves up afterward.&rdquo; Appalling.</p>
<p>But, what else can one expect from an organization that routinely aids and abets the purposeful selective aborting of female babies, and covers up statutory rape?</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>Heartbreaking and beyond repugnant ... Where is the feminist outrage at teaching young women to &ldquo;look their best&rdquo; after being violently beaten? So far, crickets. Abortion trumps all, you see.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Planned Parenthood had nothing to do with this video, other than posting it on one of its Facebook pages ... but the hatred of the organization has become so pathological that even simply linking to a video urging women <em>not</em> to cover up domestic abuse is portrayed as an effort to <em>encourage&nbsp;</em>women to cover up domestic abuse!&nbsp;</p>
Kyle MantylaKristina Ribaliplanned parenthoodTwitchyC3FreedomWorks Fighting the Right41694Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:23:54 -0400planned parenthoodStaver: Planned Parenthood's 'Death Agenda' is Destroying Americahttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-planned-parenthoods-death-agenda-destroying-america
<p>On <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2noDikE_wb0">today's edition</a> of Liberty Counsel's "Faith and Freedom" radio program, Mat Staver took issue with the idea that Planned Parenthood is a women's health organization, asserting that it is nothing of the sort. In fact, <a href="http://youtu.be/Hw24OrKBuyE">said Staver</a>, Planned Parenthood "is not interested in the health and well-being of women" but is really only interested in "their death agenda" and in "damaging the very core and foundation of who we are as Americans and a people of faith and values." &nbsp;Staver said that this nation needs to "erase this chapter of blood that has soaked America since 1973" and that begins by defunding Planned Parenthood while praying "that God will forgive this land":&nbsp;</p>
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Kyle MantylaLiberty Counsel Mat Staver planned parenthoodReproductive HealthC3Fighting the Right41399Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:33:12 -0400planned parenthoodFormer Komen Executive: Planned Parenthood Launched ‘Mafia-Style Attack,’ ‘Wanted to Destroy’ Komenhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/former-komen-executive-planned-parenthood-launched-mafia-style-attack-wanted-destroy-komen
<p>The former Susan G. Komen for the Cure executive who orchestrated the organization&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-b-keegan/angry-at-komen-you-should_b_1252833.html">controversial and short-lived break from Planned Parenthood </a>earlier this year, is out with a<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-b-keegan/angry-at-komen-you-should_b_1252833.html"> new book </a>claiming that the funding dispute was all Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s fault. In &ldquo;Planned Bullyhood,&rdquo; Karen Handel claims that Planned Parenthood turned its back on a &ldquo;gentlewomen&rsquo;s agreement&rdquo; to not discuss the fact that Komen was withdrawing $680,000 a year in grants for breast cancer screenings through the organization&rsquo;s clinics and then turned on Komen in a PR blitz.</p>
<p>Handel, an<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-b-keegan/angry-at-komen-you-should_b_1252833.html"> anti-choice activist</a>&nbsp;and former GOP candidate&nbsp;who reportedly pushed the move within Komen, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/us/after-outcry-a-top-official-resigns-at-komen-cancer-charity.html">resigned</a> shortly after the news of the break caused a national firestorm.</p>
<p>In interviews with right-wing radio hosts <a href="http://www.janetmefferdpremium.com/2012/09/13/janet-mefferd-radio-show-20120913-hr-1/">Janet Mefferd</a> and <a href="http://www.moodyradio.org/brd_ProgramDetail.aspx?id=94982">Janet Parshall</a> last week, Handel portrays herself as the victim of bullying by the &ldquo;vicious&rdquo; Planned Parenthood. She tells Mefferd that Planned Parenthood launched &ldquo;a mafia-style attack&rdquo; and that &ldquo;Komen was held hostage for a mere $680,000.&rdquo; She sees a double standard in the fact that President Obama didn&rsquo;t call her after she was criticized, &ldquo;like he did Sandra Fluke&rdquo;:</p>
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Handel: </strong>The left and Planned Parenthood, they were threatening Komen&rsquo;s corporate sponsors: &ldquo;See what we&rsquo;re doing to Komen? If you don&rsquo;t stop supporting them, we&rsquo;re gonna do the same to you.&rdquo; They were just filling up the Facebooks, Twitter, Komen&rsquo;s website crashed, there were bomb threats, corporate sponsors were threatened.<strong> It really was almost a mafia-style attack, if you will, and Komen was held hostage for a mere $680,000. And Planned Parenthood and the left, they wanted this to be about politics. I believe they used Komen purposefully as a pawn, if you will, in this ridiculous so-called &ldquo;War on Women&rdquo; and these cries of &ldquo;women&rsquo;s health.&rdquo; </strong>And Janet, my question for you, and I just find this all so insulting, how in the world did the issue of women&rsquo;s health get reduced to being about abortion and contraception?</p>
<p><strong>Meffered:</strong> Right. I&rsquo;m with you.</p>
<p><strong>Handel:</strong> I just reject that. I reject that notion, and I think that most women do too.</p>
<p><strong>Mefferd:</strong> Oh, completely. And what I found very interesting, Karen, doing the show that I do, and being pro-life and knowning a lot of pro-lifers, when Susan G. Komen made that decision and all the pro-lifers were going &ldquo;Yes, finally, great!,&rdquo; the next thing people were saying was, &ldquo;Now watch what Planned Parenthood will do to them.&rdquo; You know, we knew. We knew exactly how Planned Parenthood would react, though admittedly it was more over the top than I think a lot of us believed it would be. It was shameful what they did.</p>
<p><strong>Handel:</strong> You know, it really was. And you know, they had such an amicable partner in all of it, which was the liberal mainstream press, which really served almost as an extension of all of it and really targeted the politics, my personal politics, Ambassador Brinker&rsquo;s personal politics. And I&rsquo;d like to point out, you did not see Susan G. Komen for the Cure endorsing presidential candidates the way Planned Parenthood has, you don&rsquo;t see Komen investing, what&rsquo;s Planned Parenthood gonna spend, almost $10 million in campaign ads to support Barack Obama. <strong>Nobody, the president didn&rsquo;t call me and let me know he was sorry about the attacks that I faced, like he did Sandra Fluke.</strong></p>
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<p>Handel told Parshall that Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s &ldquo;agenda&rdquo; is &ldquo;not about women&rsquo;s health&rdquo; or &ldquo;they would not have wanted to try to destroy&rdquo; Komen.</p>
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<p><strong>Parshall: </strong>Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s assault, to use your word, and by the way you started using that word back in February of this year, way before it became the title of your book, if they&rsquo;re bullying people because they might have a pro-life position, it really calls into account whether they are pro-women or whether they are politically aligned rather than rising to a higher cause.</p>
<p><strong>Handel:</strong> I think that&rsquo;s right, I think you&rsquo;ve really hit on it, Janet. And for Komen, that&rsquo;s exactly what Komen was trying to do. Komen wanted to be in a place where everyone, regardless of whether they were pro-life or on the other side of the issue, would be able to embrace the organization and embrace the mission. We wanted to be neutral and we wanted to be good stewards of dollars. Don&rsquo;t get me wrong, it was both. <strong>Planned Parenthood, on the other hand, they were willing to sacrifice Komen for the sake of their agenda, which is not about women&rsquo;s health. If it was about women&rsquo;s health, they would not have wanted to try to destroy an organization that was doing such good work in the area of breast cancer.</strong></p>
</blockquote>Miranda BlueAnti-ChoiceC4Karen Handelplanned parenthoodSusan G. Komen for the CureFighting the Right41022Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:43:32 -0400planned parenthoodLila Rose Pledges to 'Take Out Planned Parenthood' and Do Battle with the 'Lie of Satan'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lila-rose-pledges-take-out-planned-parenthood-and-do-battle-lie-satan
<p>This week anti-choice activist Lila Rose of Live Action, best known for her <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/deceptive-video-sting-attacking-planned-parenthood-dishonest-hit-job-part-of-religious-">deceptive attacks against Planned Parenthood</a>, is the <a href="http://www.itbn.org/index/detail/lib/Networks/sublib/TBN/ec/pidDFuNDpokS3Q13Gn4YeT2XfUMs5Dys">featured</a> <a href="http://www.itbn.org/index/detail/lib/Networks/sublib/TBN/ec/QwcGNuNDq1SzXvSsMKgzn_N2CHTzvaQa">guest</a> of televangelist James Robison on <em>Life Today</em>, where she called for the church to &ldquo;rise up&rdquo; because &ldquo;this is our country.&rdquo; Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/23/planned-parenthood-live-action_n_1446527.html?ref=tw">reported</a> &ldquo;a string of suspicious incidents&rdquo; at their clinics &ldquo;in which a woman walks into a clinic, claims to be pregnant and asks a particular pattern of provocative questions about sex-selective abortions.&rdquo; While it is unclear who is behind the hoax visits, it is very similar to Live Action&rsquo;s visits of Planned Parenthood clinics posing as sex traffickers, which Planned Parenthood <a href="http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/planned-parenthood-informs-federal-authorities-potential-sex-trafficking-35888.htm">reported to the FBI</a>.</p>
<p>Just as Robison and Rose talked about how &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lila-rose-church-must-rise-because-our-nation">the enemy</a>&rdquo; is trying to make Christians disinterested in politics, Rose told the audience at Awakening 2012 that she is battling the &ldquo;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7gwi4frr8">lie of Satan</a>&rdquo; that is meant to &ldquo;discourage us&rdquo; because &ldquo;he doesn&rsquo;t want our nation to be a nation under God.&rdquo; Rose also claimed that she intends to &ldquo;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7gwi4frr8">take out Planned Parenthood</a>&rdquo; until &ldquo;they are no longer operating in our communities.&rdquo;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7gwi4frr8">Watch:</a></p>
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<blockquote>We&rsquo;re facing many challenges, I know with the election coming up with our president, we need a new president. We need to take out Planned Parenthood, we need to stop funding them, we need to make sure they are no longer operating in our communities. <br />
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The whole lie that we don&rsquo;t need Christ, or that there&rsquo;s no hope for us, there&rsquo;s no hope for the girl that&rsquo;s struggling, there&rsquo;s no hope for the trafficking victim, there&rsquo;s no hope for the unborn child, there&rsquo;s no hope for our country, it&rsquo;s a lie. I believe it&rsquo;s a direct lie, it&rsquo;s a lie of Satan himself, because he wants to discourage us and because he doesn&rsquo;t want our nation to be a nation under God.<br />
</blockquote>Brian TashmanAwakening 2012C4Lila RoseLive Actionplanned parenthoodFighting the Right39882Tue, 08 May 2012 15:10:04 -0400planned parenthoodDobson: Planned Parenthood Based on 'Evil' and 'Wickedness'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dobson-planned-parenthood-based-evil-and-wickedness
<p>Today on <a href="http://www.drjamesdobson.org/Broadcasts/Broadcast?i=71f3b4d7-f248-4ac1-96da-f4f7b34b4cdf"><em>Family Talk</em></a> James Dobson hosted Students for Life representative Kristan Hawkins. Dobson lauded <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/deceptive-video-sting-attacking-planned-parenthood-dishonest-hit-job-part-of-religious-">Lila Rose&rsquo;s dishonest and edited video &ldquo;expos&eacute;&rdquo; of Planned Parenthood</a> and claimed that Planned Parenthood is saturated with &ldquo;wickedness&rdquo; and &ldquo;evil,&rdquo; while Hawkins went on an absurd rant where she explained that Planned Parenthood is an all-powerful &ldquo;abortion Goliath&rdquo; that only cares about making money by getting girls pregnant, tricking them into getting breast cancer and ultimately coercing them to have abortions:</p>
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<blockquote><strong>Hawkins</strong>: I think the videos of Planned Parenthood have really helped to focus and to shed the light on Planned Parenthood because they are the abortion Goliath, I always refer to them as the abortion Goliath, they are the big man on campus, they&rsquo;re the ones with the lobbyists, they&rsquo;re getting the government funding, they&rsquo;re subsidizing their abortions, they&rsquo;re the ones making the money off all of this. I think the videos are very, very important in exposing their real agenda. You know Planned Parenthood sounds like a nice name, &lsquo;ooh Planned Parenthood, and they&rsquo;re providing free condoms to me, ooh yay,&rsquo; but then when you start peeling back, you know, what&rsquo;s their method? <br />
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We have this new postcard, we make these little flashy postcards and they don&rsquo;t really give students the answer but they&rsquo;re there to raise controversy and drive people to our website where they can find out more information. It says, Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s plan for you: One, give you the lowest ranked condoms that are available on the market today, the lowest ranked by Consumer Reports condoms, so you think Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s great, they&rsquo;re giving you bad condoms, then they&rsquo;re going to give you birth control that can cause breast cancer, they&rsquo;re going to give you low-dose birth control, and then they&rsquo;re going to give you an abortion, and this is their plan to make money.<br />
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<strong>Dobson</strong>: If you scratch around anywhere near the Planned Parenthood message and the function of Planned Parenthood, you see wickedness; you see evil. </blockquote>
<p>Never one to be left out of an ill-informed conversation, Ryan Dobson said that he hopes that when abortion is re-criminalized the government will force people who lived near Planned Parenthood clinics to walk through them just as Germans during the post-war occupation had to go through concentration camps:</p>
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<blockquote>You know what I hope happens, I hope what happens is what they did in Germany after World War II that the people living near concentration camps, they walk them through those areas. That&rsquo;s what they did to the Germans, those living near the concentration camps, the government walked them through those places where they were killing people every day saying &lsquo;this is what you let happen.&rsquo; Every Planned Parenthood and abortion provider in America, the people living in those communities around them should have to go through and say &lsquo;this is what you let happen.&rsquo;</blockquote>Brian TashmanAnti-AbortionC4James Dobson planned parenthoodReproductive FreedomReproductive HealthRyan DobsonStudents for Life war on womenFamily TalkFighting the Right39535Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:55:47 -0400planned parenthoodLou Engle's Group Uses Trayvon Martin Shooting to Attack Planned Parenthoodhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lou-engles-group-uses-trayvon-martin-shooting-attack-planned-parenthood
<p>Lou Engle&rsquo;s youth organization Bound4Life today is using the uproar over the Trayvon Martin shooting to attack Planned Parenthood for supposedly committing &ldquo;black genocide&rdquo; and to condemn &ldquo;the hypocrisy of black America&rdquo; for not rallying against reproductive rights. &ldquo;Many in the black community are of the persuasion that abortion is merely a political issue of certain &lsquo;rights,&rsquo;&rdquo; Corry Robinson <a href="http://bound4life.com/blog/2012/03/22/trayvon-martin-and-the-hypocrisy-of-black-america/?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter">writes</a>, &ldquo;My response is -it was Zimmerman&rsquo;s &lsquo;right&rsquo; to carry a gun and it was his &lsquo;right&rsquo; to use &lsquo;self defense&rsquo;, right?&rdquo; Robinson writes that if the police prosecute Travyon Martin&rsquo;s killer, then the state should also go after Planned Parenthood &ldquo;with accessory to 38 million racially motivated murders&rdquo;:</p>
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Looking across the vast span of media coverage, it&rsquo;s becoming increasingly evident that blacks are as passionate about &lsquo;justice&rsquo; today as we were 50 years ago during the Civil Rights Era. Young adults are mobilizing and taking it to the streets by the hundreds to lift their voices on behalf of voiceless Trayvon Martin, one who had no way of defending himself.<br />
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This current situation raises many questions in my own heart for my fellow black Americans. Particularly, &lsquo;Where are the unified protests of blacks against the holocaust of abortion in our nation?&rsquo; In the 54 million reported abortions in America since 1973, a staggering 38 million are innocent African American babies! In a wide sense, Trayvon&rsquo;s tragedy is not much different than the tragedy of abortion in that he was helpless to defend himself. Many in the black community are of the persuasion that abortion is merely a political issue of certain &ldquo;rights.&rdquo; My response is -it was Zimmerman&rsquo;s &ldquo;right&rdquo; to carry a gun and it was his &ldquo;right&rdquo; to use &ldquo;self defense&rdquo;, right? At what point do we differentiate our employment of rule of law between the two situations?<br />
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Some are saying, &ldquo;Well&hellip;Trayvon&rsquo;s murder was racially motivated!&rdquo; This may very well have been the case&hellip;but so was the institution and practice of abortion in America-and history proves this without question. Others have said, &ldquo;Zimmerman pursued Trayvon without a cause.&rdquo; Such was, and still is, the case of the abortion industry. Abortionists and Eugenicists have actively pursued African Americans for almost a century. Please understand that the very fact of Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s presence being primarily in black/minority communities (78% to be exact) is basic marketing strategy-Their target market is the African American/minority community! So again, where are the black voices on this issue? We cannot pick and choose when to &lsquo;be righteous&rsquo; and when not to be! Either we are righteous people or we aren&rsquo;t. In my opinion, there is enough evidence in Trayvon&rsquo;s tragedy to bring charges. But in a greater measure there are heaps and stacks of evidence to charge Planned Parenthood and others in the abortion industry with accessory to 38 million racially motivated murders (just to be clear, I use the term &ldquo;accessory&rdquo; because of the cooperative response of participants to abortion. Abortion clinics never act alone).</blockquote>
Brian TashmanLou Engle planned parenthoodBound4LifeC3Fighting the Right39434Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:50:35 -0400planned parenthoodTed Cruz joins Tony Perkins for a Planned Parenthood Lie-A-Thonhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-joins-tony-perkins-planned-parenthood-lie-thon
<p>Right-wing activists have always had a difficult relationship with the truth, especially when it comes to Planned Parenthood. The lies they have told about the women&rsquo;s health organization have been <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/deceptive-video-sting-attacking-planned-parenthood-dishonest-hit-job-part-of-religious-">disgraceful</a> and even <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stephen-colbert-ridicules-fox-and-friends-for-promoting-pap-smears-at-walgreens/">comical</a>. They continued today as Ted Cruz, the former Solicitor General of Texas and a candidate for US Senate, spoke to Family Research Council president Tony Perkins on <a href="http://www.afa.net/Radio/show.aspx?id=2147491263&tab=audio&audio=2147518659"><em>Today&rsquo;s Issues</em></a> about his state&rsquo;s move to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/texas-womens-clinics-retreat-as-finances-are-cut.html">defund Planned Parenthood</a>, which <a href="http://www.wmdt.com/story/17131035/health-program-losing-federal-funds-clinics?clienttype=printable">treats nearly half the patients in the state&rsquo;s Women&rsquo;s Health Program</a>.</p>
<p>Under Medicaid&rsquo;s rules, <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-Democrats-seek-alternative-funding-for-3401145.php">states cannot prohibit qualified health care providers from participating in the program</a>, and Texas officials knew that defunding Planned Parenthood would lead the federal government to withdraw its funding for the program, representing 90 percent of the program&rsquo;s total funding.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-Democrats-seek-alternative-funding-for-3401145.php">130,000 women</a> will now lose access to health care because of Texas&rsquo; decision, and will lead to <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/texas-state-agencies/health-and-human-services-commission/storify-primer-womens-health-program/">millions of dollars in new state spending</a> due to the drastic cut to preventative health care.</p>
<p>But Texas went ahead and defunded Planned Parenthood, to the satisfaction of the Religious Right, and now are shocked&mdash;shocked!&mdash;that Medicaid is enforcing its longstanding rules.</p>
<p>Perkins claimed that &ldquo;Planned Parenthood as a result of losing this funding was closing twelve of its abortion clinics.&rdquo;</p>
<p>This is false.</p>
<p>In fact, <a href="http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/feb/10/rick-perry/rick-perry-says-he-signed-legislation-leading-clos/">none of the affected clinics provided abortion services</a>. Planned Parenthood clinics that do offer abortions receive neither federal nor state funds and are therefore <a href="http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/low-income-women-texas-health-care-even-harder-195400707.html">not impacted</a> by the state&rsquo;s decision.</p>
<p>Perkins and Cruz also attempted to hold Parent Parenthood and the Obama administration responsible for the deleterious impact on women&rsquo;s health care by twisting and ignoring the facts throughout the interview. Perkins called it &ldquo;blackmail&rdquo; and blamed the administration for &ldquo;cutting off funds to some of the most needy people in the state of Texas.&rdquo; Cruz said that the Obama administration wants to send taxpayer dollars to &ldquo;the abortion industry,&rdquo; which he called &ldquo;typical of the assault on our liberties that is proceeding relentlessly everyday under the Obama administration.&rdquo;</p>
<p>They seem to find no fault at all in Texas&rsquo; unilateral and deliberate decision to break Medicaid&rsquo;s rules and defund an organization that provided nearly half of the health services to low-income women under the state&rsquo;s program.</p>
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<blockquote> <strong>Perkins</strong>: Let me get your first impressions, the Governor who you know well and the legislature whom you&rsquo;ve worked with, they said, &lsquo;We&rsquo;re not going to be part of funding Planned Parenthood.&rsquo; They took the steps, that&rsquo;s rightfully theirs, and so now I can&rsquo;t explain it as anything other than blackmail from the Obama administration cutting off funds to some of the most needy people in the state of Texas.<br />
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<strong>Cruz</strong>: Tony you&rsquo;re exactly right. The Obama administration has been the most radical administration this country has ever seen, he is the most radical president this country has ever seen. On this issue, his concern is quite simply political, it is ensuring that the money flow continues to Planned Parenthood and to the abortion industry, and he is willing to hold 130,000 low income Texas women hostage in order to make sure that Planned Parenthood makes their money. It&rsquo;s cynical, it&rsquo;s partisan and it&rsquo;s wrong.<br />
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<strong>Perkins</strong>: I wonder if the timing here, it seems very suspect to me, but after Texas decided to stop this funding of Planned Parenthood, I think it was a week before last the story came out of Texas that Planned Parenthood as a result of losing this funding was closing about twelve of their abortion clinics in Texas. That was a story that was beginning to get traction around the country, giving other legislatures encouragement to take steps like Texas. Is this an effort to cut that off at the pass and try to say &lsquo;hey, you better slow down or else we&rsquo;re going to come after funding in other areas&rsquo;?<br />
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<strong>Cruz</strong>: I think it was exactly that. The disturbing thing Tony is you and I and every American are involuntarily the largest funders of Planned Parenthood in this country because the federal government and the Obama administration is fighting tooth and nail to send millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood. You and I are both strongly pro-life, have been fighting to defend the right to life for many years, the idea that we are facing an administration that is so radical that they will do anything they can to defend and expand the taxpayer money to pay for Planned Parenthood and to fund the abortion industry, that is really dismaying and it is typical of the assault on our liberties that is proceeding relentlessly everyday under the Obama administration. </blockquote>Brian TashmanC4Election 2012planned parenthoodTed CruzTexasTony Perkins Fighting the Right39342Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:20:45 -0400planned parenthoodKaren Handel Plays the Victim in Interview Attacking Planned Parenthoodhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/karen-handel-plays-victim-interview-attacking-planned-parenthood
<p>Former Georgia Secretary of State and Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation vice president Karen Handel appeared on the <em><a href="http://www.cbn.com/media/player/index.aspx?s=/mp4/LWE30v2_WS">700 Club</a></em> today where she blamed the controversy of Komen&rsquo;s decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s clinical breast cancer screenings and mammogram referrals&hellip;on Planned Parenthood. Handel, who as an unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate in Georgia <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100921093610/http:/blog.karenhandel.com/2010/07/karen-handel-on-life-and-planned-parenthood/">pledged to defund Planned Parenthood</a>, acknowledged her role in convincing the organization to break ties with the women&rsquo;s health group, but claimed that she was not the sole authority behind the decision.</p>
<p>While speaking with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Handel tried to blame Planned Parenthood for the controversy, even though it was the Komen foundation which ended its partnership with Planned Parenthood following pressure campaigns from anti-choice organizations. She attacked Planned Parenthood for leading a &ldquo;premeditated, orchestrated attack&rdquo; on the Komen foundation &ldquo;not for sake of women&rsquo;s health but for the sake of politics and a political agenda.&rdquo; Later in the interview, she said Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s actions were &ldquo;nothing short of a shakedown&rdquo; and that the media was biased in the group&rsquo;s favor.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DziJ5T0NPJ0&feature=youtu.be">Watch:</a></p>
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<p>Last week, amid the Religious Right freak-out over the Obama administration's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/us/politics/boehner-vows-to-fight-contraception-rule.html">rule</a> requiring health insurance plans to cover contraception, the Family Research Council hastily organized <a href="http://www.frcaction.org/mandate">a webcast</a> to rally the opposition called "Healthcare Mandate: Violating the Separation of Church and State."</p>
<p>Among the guests was Sen. Orrin Hatch <a href="http://youtu.be/z4WuU4DGAIE">who claimed</a> that the issue was not about contraception but rather about abortion as he asserted that abortion constitutes 95% of what Planned Parenthood does as an organization:</p>
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<p>If that sounds familiar, it is probably because Sen. John Kyl <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/04/08/157196/jon-kyl-90-percent-planned-parenthood-abortion/">made the same claim last year</a>. Kyl's claims was so <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/what-planned-parenthood-actually-does/2011/04/06/AFhBPa2C_blog.html">thoroughly</a> <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/apr/08/jon-kyl/jon-kyl-says-abortion-services-are-well-over-90-pe/">debunked</a> as patently false [in reality, it is about 3%] that his office was reduced to laughably asserting that "<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/04/08/157415/kyl-walks-back-claim-about-planned-parenthoo/">his remark was not intended to be a factual statement</a>."</p>
<p>Apparently Hatch missed that entire spectacle, or simply doesn't care, as he freely repeating the falsehood as FRC's Tony Perkins assured him that he was correct.</p>Kyle MantylaOrrin Hatch planned parenthoodTony Perkins Family Research Council28513Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:23:14 -0400planned parenthoodOops: Family Research Council Accidentally Praises Komenhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/oops-family-research-council-accidentally-praises-komen
<p>The problem with pre-recorded radio shows is that they don&rsquo;t necessarily keep up with the news. On his <a href="http://www.frc.org/washingtonwatchdailyradiocommentary/good-news-on-life-keep-it-komen">radio alert</a> today, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins pays tribute to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation for cutting off funding for breast cancer screenings and mammogram referrals at Planned Parenthood clinics. Apparently, no one at the FRC thought it was a good idea to pull the bulletin as last week Komen backed down from its move to defund Planned Parenthood, and listeners might be confused while Perkins is &ldquo;tickled pink&rdquo; about Komen.</p>
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<blockquote>After seven years of sitting out Susan G. Komen events, pro-lifers can finally get back in the Race! Hello, I'm Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. Pro-lifers aren't just happy--they're tickled pink about America's biggest breast cancer charity. After a seven-year partnership, Susan G. Komen finally cut ties with Planned Parenthood. Most people never understood the relationship to begin with. One group was setting out to save lines, and Planned Parenthood committed to ending them. But, since 2005, Komen sent millions of dollars to the abortion giant for breast cancer screenings. Then the news broke. Planned Parenthood didn't need the money for mammograms, because it never offered them! All they do are manual breast exams, which the NIH calls ineffective. Liberals are bashing the Foundation for politicizing the issue, but in reality, Komen's just trying to be a good steward. Planned Parenthood's under investigation by Congress for everything from fraud and criminal cover-ups. Any legitimate organization would walk away! It's just too bad the federal government isn't one of them.</blockquote>Brian Tashmanplanned parenthoodTony Perkins Family Research Council28472Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:15:40 -0400planned parenthoodFamily Research Council Prays Against Girl Scout Cookieshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/family-research-council-prays-against-girl-scout-cookies
<p>In today&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.frc.org/prayerteam/prayer-targets-revival-obamacare-military-planned-parenthood-scouts-pastors-islam-colleges">prayer alert</a>, the Family Research Council boasted that as a result of their <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/planned-parenthood-did-not-teach-girl-scouts-how-lead-happy-sex-lives-while-living-hiv">pressure campaign</a> against the Girl Scouts &ldquo;their cookie sales are suffering.&rdquo; The FRC has long attacked the Girl Scouts over discredited allegations that the Girl Scouts work with Planned Parenthood to promote &ldquo;casual sex&rdquo; and train girls about living with HIV. Ironically, while the FRC is hounding the Girl Scouts over the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/girl-scouts-ensnared-rights-hatred-planned-parenthood">unfounded charges</a>, the group criticized the tactics of &ldquo;Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s activist machine&rdquo; which put pressure on the Susan. G. Komen for the Cure Foundation to restore ties with the women&rsquo;s health organization.</p>
<p>Although &ldquo;none of the money&rdquo; from Girl Scout cookie sales &ldquo;is given to any other group,&rdquo; that hasn&rsquo;t <a href="http://www.frc.org/prayerteam/prayer-targets-revival-obamacare-military-planned-parenthood-scouts-pastors-islam-colleges">stopped FRC from asking for prayers against the Girl Scouts</a>. The prayer alert says the &ldquo;Scouts had better confess their errors&rdquo; and stop &ldquo;collaborating with Planned Parenthood,&rdquo; and even cites a passage from <a href="http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=195715583">Matthew 27</a> on the suicide of Judas Iscariot to imply that the Girl Scouts are taking blood money.</p>
<blockquote> Planned Parenthood - The victory for the Susan G. Komen Foundation was short lived in breaking away from the largest private and tax funded abortion business in America. Planned Parenthood's activist machine so bludgeoned Komen that they agreed to reverse their stand. The Girl Scouts, whose leadership has been collaborating with Planned Parenthood for years, have found out and their cookie sales are suffering. This is very sensitive for the Scouts. The Scouts had better confess their errors and make a clean break while they can. Yet Planned Parenthood doesn't let its captives go easily.<br />
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May Congress expose and defund Planned Parenthood and may private organizations refuse to submit to shakedowns by Planned Parenthood and others in the abortion advocacy industry. May the Pro-life Majority grow in America until abortion has been abolished (Ex 23:2; Dt 21:1-9; 2 Kg 24:2-4 Pr 20:11; 24:11-12; Mt 27:4-6; Eph 5:11-14).<br />
</blockquote>Brian Tashmanplanned parenthoodFamily Research Council28447Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:50:35 -0400planned parenthoodReligious Right Reacts To Komen's Latest Statement with Confusion, Anger and Warnings of God's Wrathhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-reacts-komens-latest-statement-confusion-anger-and-warnings-gods-wrath
<p>In the world of Religious Right activists, waging a campaign to convince the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation to cut funding to breast cancer exams at Planned Parenthood clinics is an admirable exercise of public advocacy, but when people join a campaign to convince the Komen foundation to continue their partnership with Planned Parenthood to fight breast cancer, it&rsquo;s &ldquo;gangsterism.&rdquo;</p>
<p>After Komen released a <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/statement-from-susan-g-komen-board-of-directors-and-founder-and-ceo-nancy-g-brinker-2012-02-03">statement</a> that opened the door to maintain its ties to the women&rsquo;s health organization, Planned Parenthood <a href="http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/statement-cecile-richards-planned-parenthood-federation-america-regarding-todays-komen-announce-38686.htm">said</a> it is &ldquo;heartened that we can continue to work in partnership toward our shared commitment to breast health for the most underserved women&rdquo; and &ldquo;enormously grateful that the Komen Foundation has clarified its grantmaking criteria.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The uproar not only resulted in a <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/02/03/how-komen-flushed-their-brand-in-24-hours">huge black eye to Komen</a> but also helped Planned Parenthood <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/michelleinbklyn/status/165503251259723777">raise over $3 million</a> to <a href="http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/alarmed-saddened-komen-foundation-succumbing-political-pressure-planned-parenthood-launches-fun-38629.htm">protect their breast health program</a> from <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=146158331">cuts</a>. Moreover, the controversy exposed the Religious Right&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-praises-komen-cutting-breast-exams-planned-parenthood-demands-further-capitu">unabashed glee</a> that tens of thousands of women would lose access to breast exams and gave them another opportunity to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pro-life-activists-pile-praise-decision-defund-breast-cancer-screenings-planned-parenthood-p">rekindle the debunked claim that abortion is linked to breast cancer</a>.</p>
<p>But their excitement at women losing access to cancer screenings seems to be fading with the <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/02/03/an-apology-but-not-reversal-from-susan-g-komen-foundation">new statement from Komen</a>.</p>
<p>Mona Charen of the <em>National Review Online </em><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/290088/komen-and-womens-lives-mona-charen">lamented</a> that &ldquo;it&rsquo;s extremely disappointing that Komen has caved&rdquo; but &ldquo;it&rsquo;s hardly surprising given the onslaught they&rsquo;ve endured over the course of the last few days,&rdquo; and NRO&rsquo;s Daniel Foster charged Planned Parenthood with &ldquo;<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/290083/you-should-find-anti-komen-backlash-disgusting-even-if-youre-pro-choice-daniel-foster">gangsterism</a>.&rdquo; Of course, just days prior Kathryn Jean Lopez on <em>NRO </em><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/289798/taking-back-pink-planned-parenthood-news-precious-reporting-kathryn-jean-lopez">hailed Komen&rsquo;s initial decision as a major victory</a>, noting &ldquo;this Komen-Planned Parenthood relationship has long been a target of pro-life activists.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Catholic Family and Human Rights Initiative (C-Fam) president Austin Ruse told <em>LifeSiteNews </em>called <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/komen-reversal-decision-planned-parenthood-funding">potentially successful effort</a> to have the Komen foundation reverse their decision defunding Planned Parenthood a &ldquo;<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-is-komen-backing-down-breast-cancer-organization-releases-new-stat">mafia shakedown</a>&rdquo;:</p>
<blockquote> Pro-life leaders say that the exact import of the statement is not yet clear, and that Komen seems to be asking for breathing room, possibly with the intention of caving in definitively to pro-abortion pressure.<br />
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Austin Ruse of C-Fam told LifeSiteNews.com Friday morning that, &ldquo;The mafia shakedown tactics may have worked, but we&rsquo;re not sure.&rdquo;<br />
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Ruse advised that pro-lifers should &ldquo;take a wait and see attitude&rdquo; to discern whether the pro-abortion pushback against Komen would succeed.</blockquote>
<p>Kristen Walker of Live Action <a href="http://liveaction.org/blog/komen-reverses-decision-to-defund-planned-parenthood/">called</a> it a &ldquo;terrible shame that Komen has caved in to political pressure from pro-abortion fanatics who demand obeisance to Planned Parenthood&rdquo; and wondered what will happen to all the money people gave to Komen to reward them for dropping Planned Parenthood:</p>
<blockquote> If raising money to cure breast cancer were their primary concern, they would not have reversed this decision. Their donations went up 100% in the short time since they announced the halting of grants to PP as pro-lifers who have refused to donate to Komen opened their wallets to thank them for their decision, happy to finally be able to give to their good work of fighting breast cancer with a clear conscience. I wonder if Komen has given any thought to the fact that those people gave money in good faith believing it wouldn&rsquo;t be used to fund abortions. Will they refund that money? I guess we&rsquo;ll see.<br />
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It is a terrible shame that Komen has caved in to political pressure from pro-abortion fanatics who demand obeisance to Planned Parenthood. It is a terrible shame they&rsquo;re allowing PP and its followers to compromise their mission to cure breast cancer.</blockquote>
<p>Evangelist Bill Keller <a href="http://christiannewswire.com/news/4262118862.html">warned</a> that the latest move by the Komen foundation may well lead to &ldquo;the wrath and punishment of God unleashed on this wicked nation at any moment&rdquo;:</p>
<blockquote> Keller said, "It only shows the level of spiritual decay in this nation when a private foundation who made a decision to stop giving money to the world's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, causes the media, politicians, and the supporters of killing babies to go into a wild frenzy. The Catholic Church has always stood for the sanctity of life, yet Catholics like Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Joe Biden, and MSNBC's Chris Matthews, were livid that the Komen Foundation decided to stop giving a $250,000 annual grant to Planned Parenthood."<br />
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Keller concluded, "You don't have to be a Biblical scholar to know that we are on the verge of seeing the wrath and punishment of God unleashed on this wicked nation at any moment. Every 24 hours we slaughter approximately 4,000 innocent babies. Where is the outrage about that in the media, in the halls of Congress? Sadly, society doesn't even give it a second thought and has fully embraced this 'culture of death' which hangs over this nation like a black cloud."</blockquote>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Liberty Counsel Action is now <a href="http://visitor.benchmarkemail.com/c/v?e=1365B6&c=1F932&t=1&l=1F2CAB8&email=EJnOkJV0E9mmKuNoyqXaZKBanR218rId&relid=">urging</a> its members to cancel any donations they made to Komen, with Matt Barber arguing that the group should change their&nbsp;name to &ldquo;Susan G. Komen for the Cause,&rdquo;&nbsp;pushing the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pro-life-activists-pile-praise-decision-defund-breast-cancer-screenings-planned-parenthood-p">discredited charge</a> that abortion is linked to breast cancer:</p>
<blockquote>The reversal comes on the heels of news that Komen&rsquo;s donations jumped 100% after deciding to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation&rsquo;s leading abortion provider that is currently under criminal investigation in multiple venues. Liberty Counsel Action is encouraging its members to cancel any checks and credit card contributions made in the wake of Komen&rsquo;s initial decision to defund Planned Parenthood and asking any pro-life participants in Komen&rsquo;s June 2 Global Race for the Cure run in Washington, D.C. to withdraw. <br />
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Matt Barber, Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action, says that anyone who sincerely wants to contribute to the fight against breast cancer has dozens if not hundreds of other options from hospitals to other nonprofit organizations, but Komen should be off the list. <br />
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&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a sad day for those who both seek a breast cancer cure and who respect the dignity of all human life,&rdquo; said Barber. &ldquo;Susan G. Komen for the Cure should recognize that abortion is not a cure for anything. Perhaps they should change the name to Susan G. Komen for the Cause. What a tragic paradox. There is mounting medical evidence that indicates abortion significantly increases the risk for breast cancer.&rdquo; <br />
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Calling Komen&rsquo;s decision &ldquo;the coward&rsquo;s way out,&rdquo; Barber said that the decision to once again partner with Planned Parenthood was nothing more than capitulation to &ldquo;tremendous left-wing political pressure.&rdquo; <br />
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&ldquo;They have chosen death over life &ndash; cancer over cure,&rdquo; said Barber. &ldquo;Instead of showing courage, they caved. Komen is now part of the breast cancer problem rather than the solution.&rdquo; </blockquote>Brian TashmanAnti-AbortionAustin RuseBill Keller Liberty Counsel Life Site NewsLive ActionMatt Barber National Reviewplanned parenthoodReproductive HealthCatholic Family and Human Rights Institute28457Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:10:40 -0400planned parenthoodPlanned Parenthood did not Teach Girl Scouts how to Lead Happy Sex Lives while Living with HIVhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/planned-parenthood-did-not-teach-girl-scouts-how-lead-happy-sex-lives-while-living-hiv
<p>Amid the news that the Susan G. Komen Foundation <a href="http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-komen-planned-parenthood-reversal-20120203,0,5693397.story">may</a> (or <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/komen-caved-or-did-it/2012/02/03/gIQA9tS9mQ_blog.html">may not</a>)&nbsp;be reversing its decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, it is worth taking a moment to realize just how ridiculous yet effective the right-wing campaign against Planned Parenthood has been.</p>
<p>For instance, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/girl-scouts-ensnared-rights-hatred-planned-parenthood">back in 2010</a>, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute alleged that during a United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, the Girl Scouts "hosted a no-adults-welcome panel at the United Nations ... where Planned Parenthood was allowed to distribute a brochure entitled 'Healthy, Happy and Hot' [which] contains explicit and graphic details on sex, as well as the promotion of casual sex in many forms."</p>
<p>The only problem was that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/girl-scouts-ensnared-rights-hatred-planned-parenthood">it wasn't true</a>.&nbsp; As the Girl Scouts explained, all the organizations at the conference had been using the same rooms and so if there were any Planned Parenhood brochures present in the room when they held their meeting, it was only because they had been left behind after previous sessions.</p>
<p>As we pointed out back in 2010, the enitre allegation doesn't even make sense as the purpose of the brochure in question is aimed at teaching people about how to <em>lead sexually fulfilling lives while living with HIV</em>?&nbsp; Are we really supposed to believe that the Girl Scouts kicked everyone out of the room so that Planned Parenthood could present this information to a bunch of young girls?&nbsp;</p>
<p>But the fact that the entire thing is fundamentally absurd, all of the Religious Right's anti-Planned Parenthood crusders ate it up and have repeated it ad nauseum until it has <a href="http://www.ktvb.com/news/local/Girl-Scout-officials-say-rumor-is-disrupting-cookie-sales-138528349.html">gotten to the point</a> where it is now so accepted as fact that Girl Scout leaders have to spend time repeatedly swatting down the rumor while losing sales:</p>
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<p>For decades The Girl Scouts of America has been dedicated to helping young girls learn life skills. But now the organization is having to defending itself against a rumor that they say is disrupting sales of their biggest fund raiser - cookies.</p>
<p>The rumor started two years ago and connects the Girl Scouts to Planned Parenthood.</p>
<p>The CEO of the Silver Sage Girl Scouts Council, Shelli Rambo Roberson says the rumor has been fueled by social media sites and blogs, and for some reason, it's gaining traction this year.</p>
<p>Roberson says the rumor started at a global forum in Europe about the status of women in the world.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Out of that came a rumor that there was some training given to girls from Planned Parenthood, and there is absolutely no merit to that,&rdquo; said Roberson.</p>
<p>The rumor claims sexually explicit information was given to the Girl Scouts by members of Planned Parenthood.</p>
<p>&ldquo;There's no partnership or interaction between Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood,&rdquo; said Roberson.</p>
<p>Even though the incident allegedly happened two years ago, they're now seeing more people reacting.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We have girls report to us that people have said they won't support them,&rdquo; said Roberson.</p>
<p>Within the four Girl Scout offices in south Idaho, they've received over 200 phone calls from concerned citizens and e-mails continue to fill their in boxes.</p>
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<p>And it is no wonder that the Girl Scouts have to keep dealing with this considering that groups like the Family Research Council, which <a href="http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=by06k07">employs the wife</a> of the <a href="http://www.c-fam.org/about-us/staff/austin-ruse.html">president</a> of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute which started the rumor in the first place, <a href="http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU12B02&f=RF07B06">continue to spread it</a>:</p>
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<p>It looks like liberals finally got caught with their hands in the cookie jar! After people like FRC's Cathy Ruse started exposing the connection between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood, more customers are pulling their support from the annual fundraiser. One news outlet in Idaho, says more than 200 people have complained, bringing cookie sales to one of their lowest points. Shelli Rambo Roberson, the CEO of the local Council, claims there's no partnership. It's just a "rumor," she told reporters.</p>
<p>Not so, says Cathy, who has plenty of documentation from a special U.N. "Girls Only" workshop co-hosted by Planned Parenthood and the Girl Scouts. The workshop included a graphic sex manual called "Healthy, Happy, and Hot," full of ideas too pornographic to repeat. It's part of a joint project to bring "better sexual health" to girls as young as 10. And while some troop leaders are committed to raising women of integrity, we can't turn a blind eye to the Girl Scout headquarters, which is bombarding girls with topics like abortion, contraception, and homosexuality.</p>
</blockquote>Kyle MantylaAustin RuseCathy Ruse planned parenthoodCatholic Family and Human Rights InstituteFamily Research Council28556Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:41 -0400planned parenthood